Canada to fund genetic evaluation of Angus cattle

The government of Canada has announced funding to improve the genetic evaluation tools for the country’s Angus cattle herd. The country’s Minister of Agriculture, Lawrence MacAulay, has said that the government will commit up to CA$1.6 million (€1.08 million) to the Canadian Angus Association (CAA) to improve the genetic evaluation of Canadian beef and dairy cattle. The funding will be used for the development of genetic selection tools to allow producers increase their return on investment while predicting traits that benefit the environment and respond to consumer preferences, the country’s department of agriculture (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada) said. Angus cattle in Canada The development of those genetic selection tools will allow for the collection of large volumes of data and managing the complexity of that collected data. The CAA will be able to use the funding to leverage technologies such as artificial intelligence; machine learning; and camera and computer vision ...